A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
Acting
Glenn Ford's unraveling patriarch — sweaty, desperate, magnetic
Direction
TV broadcast sequence feels uncomfortably prescient
Director
Alex Segal
Glenn Ford
David G. 'Dave' Stannard
Donna Reed
Edith Stannard
Leslie Nielsen
Charlie Telfer
Juano Hernández
Jesse Chapman aka Uncle Jesse
Robert Keith
Police Chief Jim Backett
Richard Gaines
Langly
Mabel Albertson
Mrs. Partridge
Alexander Scourby
Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
Lori March
Elizabeth Stannard
Robert Burton
Sheriff Jake Kessing
Juanita Moore
Shirley Lorraine
Ainslie Pryor
Al Stannard
Olan Soule
Bank Clerk
Charles Herbert
Butchie Ritter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Remade in 1996 as 'Ransom' with Mel Gibson — that version has explosions, this one has ulcers.
Released during the Golden Age of Television, it weaponizes the medium itself as judge and jury.
US
